Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers Game. This week’s number is 219. Her instructions for playing along are listed below …
To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in Judy’s Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.
The Lime Kiln Light is a functioning navigational aid located on Lime Kiln Point overlooking Dead Man’s Bay on the western side of San Juan Island, San Juan County, Washington, in the United States. The Lime Kiln Light was established in 1914 when acetylene lights were placed on Lime Kiln Point.
The lighthouse at Lime Kiln Point was one of the last major navigational aids to be constructed on the shores of the Salish Sea. Architect Carl Leick was engaged to design the lighthouse, keepers’ quarters and fog signal building. Leick’s design motto was “Build ‘em stout, and make ‘em last.” The buildings were all built with reinforced concrete, an early use of that building technique. The light was commissioned on June 30, 1919.
Lime Kiln Lighthouse Lime Kiln Point State Park Friday Harbor, San Juan County, Washington, USA
Due to the difficulty of supplying electricity to the site through the rugged terrain of the west side of San Juan Island, Lime Kiln Lighthouse continued using IOV lamps long after other locations had switched to electricity. The lamps were replaced with electric lights after World War II. The operation of the light was automated in 1962. The Lime Kiln Point Lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Location: Lime Kiln Lighthouse; Lime Kiln State Park; Friday Harbor, Washington, USA
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The Point Cabrillo Light Station is a California State Historic Park on the Mendocino coast in northern California. It is located between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino, just south of the community of Caspar.
Point Cabrillo Light
The Point Cabrillo Light Station features a fully restored lighthouse and its original Fresnel lens. It has been a federal aid to navigation since 1909. The grounds include restored keepers’ houses, a marine science exhibit, and vacation rentals.
Point Cabrillo Light Station A Collaborative Restoration Project Of: California State Coastal Conservancy California Department ofParks and Recreation Point Cabrillo Lightkeepers Association
Most of the original structures remain, but the barn is missing: in 1986 it was destroyed in a fire department exercise. The remaining lighthouse station is “one of the most complete light stations in the United States”.
The lighthouse was built to prevent shipwrecks in the area, a response to a clipper ship, the Frolic, that wrecked nearby in 1850. The effort to salvage goods from the wreck led to the discovery of the redwood forest. Construction on the lighthouse began in 1908, with its first illumination on June 10, 1909.
Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park
The park grounds are open daily from sunrise to sunset. The Lighthouse museum, gift shop, and Marine Science Exhibit are open year-round from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. There is no fee to enter the park or tour the lighthouse museum. The main parking lot is a half-mile walk from the lighthouse, but there is accessible parking available closer to the buildings for vehicles with a disabled placard.
The Yaquina Head Light, also known early in its existence as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast of the United States, established in 1873. The tower stands 93 feet (28 m) tall, and is the tallest lighthouse in Oregon.
Yaquina Head Lighthouse
The Lighthouse was made in Paris in 1868 and shipped to Oregon. The Yaquina Head Light was initially lit on August 20, 1873 and it was automated in 1966. It is active with an identifying light characteristic of two seconds on, two seconds off, two seconds on, and 14 seconds off.
Yaquina Head Lighthouse shot from the Rear
Yaquina Head typically had three lighthouse keepers under the U.S. Lighthouse Service; a Head Keeper, and First and Second Assistant. In 1939 the U.S. Coast Guard took over the management.
The lighthouse lantern is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service monitors offshore bird rookeries and wildlife. The lighthouse still uses its original 1868 French-made, 1st order, Fixed Fresnel lens, visible 19 miles (31 km) out to sea.
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